Evading China's Great Firewall

Savvy Internet users have found a new way to dodge China's online censors. The WSJ's Paul Mozur tells us why the government is having a hard time keeping information out.

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I ... the ... finding ways to get round China's top sent it to me now is reporter Paul Bonjour from Beijing ... all we hear more more stories and tiny sensors cracking down on ... the pianos which a lot of Chinese people are are starting to use ... how are they getting around to ... the Census ... boasting in with the VPN is is basically a an encrypted connection and has provided by a number of companies on him to let people attended been using that ... traditionally to get around the great firewall an evil creature ... you know insulated connection to a server outside of China ... now the problem is lately I'm especially given the power transition I let you know this month the last month ... on what's been happening Citron enchanting this ... aam insulin response one of the things people it been doing on these modifying something called the post file under this to say that I cute dresses that your computer ... Cemex S and in that way their of their allowing themselves to direct me I'd go to a global into cohort Facebook or to be stuck in a western states ... and avoiding high the Chinese unit blocks which we could come if you had this with ... you know woke up the name of the website itself and then find the IP address ... that makes sense to pay at Apple I was gonna say in a lot of companies that ... foreign companies who are inside China we all using BP Ends and ... certainly at the Wall Street Journal ... on ... sale when a bit when China blocks to the advances in fact everyone nor can they specifically target certain ones ... I mean it depends a big beacon to target different each and companies ... ALM so at first it was summer the ALM serve more marginal begins that went down aam in October and then slowly some of the bigger ones that you know ... that targets of it which Nokia go down which is a larger one ... in the family Astral which is another one that is performing very well aam ... write it the sort of during the power transition went down and then she posted the upbeat message on their screen ... you know telling people in China that this is a specific China problem and you know basically telling them how to fix that problem ... aam but it does affect everybody on the effects you yet I was missing with a friend of one point ... during the dinner an inch or is trying to do on the key work email and she just couldn't get on Geno Christina was blocked and her beak and spots and there is nothing to be done to the CIA to go home ... aam and call you know calling which was trying to do so ... that's the kind of level that was happening during the pelicans ... ok what do we have any idea how many people actually inside China actually using BP Ends Nenad ... I said this story before bed and a mine told me her seventy five year old ive father in Chengdu managed to get the VPN ... of soap how accessible our that ... yet I mean it's ... it's it's really anybody's guess is the whole point of the Dubuque in isit masks or you're coming from ... see you can really look at traffic aam readers and say oh there's this many people I certainly anecdotally it's it's probably in the millions on ... this it's not that hard you download some software you just click a button on a lot of them are some are free some are paid ... aam but you know somebody sets it up for you I it's not that hard at all really I am still alive if you you can talk to Chinese friends is minimal have Facebook and so had to get that so you know opera news computer whiz played around with my phone and I can get Facebook comments or they may not even know on how it works that they had a name and an even know what it's called ... on in this this other you know take the Everett about this that modifying the hosts file ... on it's it's interesting because it shows that you know even without an EP and there are ways that the people we know that that widespread freely by spring the four hundred thousand you know ... pj's come up when you search for yield modifying a host of the good the spoke ... on the Chinese in it so they are there other ways are widespread and people spread these things you know around message boards and chat functions ... I think it'll help each other get around this thing so it's definitely happening ... the numbers are just a probably millions they think ... that a sell out one thing that didn't occur to me after I read your report is now that we've had told everyone how the fences and getting around that that that people are getting around the fence is it easy for the center's Mount and to block what they're doing to get around ... yet what was I was rather concerned about this to an unknown talk me with big Eisenstadt Felix town sheriff who is are you know part of one of these groups that ... you know I'd spread this the sets of IP addresses on around the internet so that other people and do it ... you know he kind of laughed it off and said you know what to me these things are on in chat functions the scenes on microblogs these things are posted on aam you know message boards and ... independent websites all over the place so I'm you think of it actually bought people's access to these addresses as the updated would be extremely difficult the newbie you needed to get from the malty ... of many many different you know entry points in and it's it would really require a lot of sophistication to do that ... at the sickening they could be could probably Block icky addresses more quickly ... aam but again it's it's one of those things that it seems unlikely that there really in a ... crackdown that are done this given it's not that huge group of people doing it aam and ... you know welcome to the degree China Real Time who knows maybe that the judge of that I guess ... we'll find out the ... day ... he begged AmEx fall foliage or joining us from Beijing ... one that star a pink anti China Real Time on WS J dot com under for time thanks for watching